A Word of Thanks to the Past Newsletter Editors

Success is not built in a day and we wish to express our appreciation to those whose many long hours of effort sustained the SIRC newsletter (formerly the Committee J Newsletter as many of you know) as one of the Section's enduring traditions.  Fourteen years ago, when one of your current SIRC co-chairs first became a co-editor, the newsletter was already a thriving tradition.  Since 1992 it has had a succession of dedicated leaders, including Paul Ellington, Giorgio Cherubini, Marika Chalkiadis and most recently Gian Bruno Bruni.

Gian Bruno Bruni of Milan's Bruni-Simonelli Avvocati, (bruni@brunilaw.it) merits very special recognition as a past newsletter editor.  He is not only the most recent, but the longest-serving editor in the newsletter's history, and presided over its evolution into a lengthy and very significant publication.  Gian Bruno's term as editor came to an end with the newsletter's final issue (autumn 2006), but the product of his labours continues, as the following he helped build is the base on which the new SIRC Mid-Journal has been constructed.  The SIRC executive and membership owe a deep debt of gratitude for the many, many hours given to sustain a tradition and give its offspring such a healthy start.  Gian Bruno, please accept our sincere expression of gratitude extended on behalf of SIRC, its membership, and the newsletter's wide community of readers.

So too an expression of thanks to each of the past newsletter editors for their part in continuing the tradition, and an invitation to all SIRC members to pass on your ideas, thoughts and contributions to the new journal and its editors.  Over your careers, you have watched the transformation of insolvency from a largely domestic practice to something greater.  Today, insolvency and restructuring is international.  And it now has a new voice.